If you’re an employer, you likely are in need of that newemployee’s skills and time in order to keep your department running smoothly—whether the spot is open because you’ve decided you could afford the extra staffing or if someone on your team recently left the company. If you’re a potential employee, knowing when or how likely it is that a job posting will be filled is important because, well, you most likely need the income from said job sooner rather than later.
Here are some tips on the amount of time it takes to fill a vacancy in an IT department:
The phrase “location, location, location,” applies to more than just real estate. Where the job posting in question is located can drastically effect how quickly it will be filled—of course other factors play into this as well, such as the company size and desirability of the position—but generally, geography matters during a job or employee search.
Indeed’s study showed that businesses in the West filled open positions more quickly than businesses in the Midwest or East. Whether this has to do with population density or desire to live in one area more than another, cost-of-living, etc. is not clear. Though it’s safe to say that the more desirable of a city the job is in, the easier it may be to fill—especially if pay is competitive and cost-of-living is affordable in the nearby areas.
Employers waste around 330 million hours, according to Indeed’s report, each year trying to find new hires. The old-fashioned method of posting a job and waiting for the resumes to come in may work for some companies—particularly if you’re a bigger name—but for smaller companies it may lead to hours of wasted time.
Know what you should be spending on job postings and find creative ways to get the word out—the more you do, the less time that chair will sit empty!